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The Binary Mindset of Imperialism
2020, oil on linen diptych, each panel 29.7 x 21 cm (a4)
‘What is at work is not so much nostalgia for empire as a throwback to the binary mindset
of imperialism, in which there are only two possible states: dominant or submissive.’
Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times, Saturday 14th September 2019
Original photographic image courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland
